While working on EPEL9, it seems that even more packages are missing
from RHEL9 than were in RHEL8. The latest I found was cppunit, which
appears to be completely missing from the CS9 repos despite having been
built (See
https://kojihub.stream.centos.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=2414) and
presumably in the CS9/RHEL9 buildroot.
So I scraped some screens from
pkgs.org:
Stream 9:
CentOS AppStream Official x86_64 8882
CentOS BaseOS Official x86_64 2357
CentOS CRB Official x86_64 1856
Stream 8:
CentOS AppStream Official x86_64 15008
CentOS BaseOS Official x86_64 6721
CentOS PowerTools Official x86_64 3771
That's a pretty big difference. Now, I don't know how many were dropped
completely and how many are of the "buildroot only" variety. But I
suspect there is a fair amount of the latter and so a lot of make-work
ahead of us for EPEL9.
Packaging for EPEL9 is starting to feel more and more like cleaning the
Augean stables with RedHat piling up more manure.
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